WEYMOUTH and Portland Borough Council has received six offers to buy its North Quay offices.

The council put the offices up for sale earlier this year - so the land could be developed - as it prepares to move to a new home.

The deadline has now passed for bids.

The council will be moving to the smaller Mulberry Centre early next year with other departments going to Chickerell and Dorchester.

Offers for North Quay will be considered by the council’s management committee next week.

A report states that six ‘substantive’ offers were received by the agents by the due date.

It is being recommended that councillors reject four offers, agrees to proceed another offer and agree to another if the preferred offer doesn’t go ahead.

Details of the bids that have been received are confidential and not available for viewing by the public.

More detailed discussions will take place with the prospective buyer following the meeting.

Some of the offers received were conditional but the council requested unconditional bids only for the site.

It is also stated that the offers received vary considerably but would all provide a ‘substantial capital receipt’ for the council.

The sale will also allow for revenue savings as outgoings such as rates, light and heat would no longer apply to the site.

If councillors agree to proceed more discussions will take place.

Management committee chairman and briefholder for corporate affairs and continuous improvement Ian Bruce is happy with the response to the building going up for sale.

He said: “We have had a very good response from the people who have bid and I think we’re going to choose and move forward.”